Rob Speyer
{{short description|American real estate developer (born 1969)}}
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|occupation = Real estate developer
|title = President and CEO, Tishman Speyer
|nationality = American
|spouse = {{Marriage|Anne-Cecilie Engell|2008}}
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|alma_mater = Columbia College
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|parents = Jerry Speyer
Lynn Tishman
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Rob Speyer (born 1969) is an American real estate developer. He is the CEO{{Cite web |title=Rob Speyer |url=https://www.tishmanspeyer.com/people/rob-speyer |access-date=2022-07-28 |website=Rob Speyer |language=en}} of New York City real estate company Tishman Speyer.{{cite web|title=ROB SPEYER|url=http://www.tishmanspeyer.com/firm/people/bios/rob-speyer|website=Tishman Speyer}}{{cite web|last1=Bockmann|first1=Rich|title=Rob Speyer to be sole CEO of Tishman Speyer|date=28 September 2015 |url=http://therealdeal.com/2015/09/28/rob-speyer-to-be-sole-ceo-of-tishman-speyer/|publisher=The Real Deal|access-date=26 September 2016}}
Early life and education
Speyer was born to a Jewish family, the son of Lynn (née Tishman) and Jerry Speyer.[https://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/08/nyregion/a-developer-for-the-90-s-big-projects-little-flash.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm New York Times: "A Developer For the 90's: Big Projects, Little Flash" By BRETT PULLEY] October 08, 1995 His great-grandfather, Julius Tishman, founded Tishman Realty and Construction; and his father Jerry Speyer and his maternal grandfather, Robert Tishman, founded the real estate development firm Tishman Speyer.{{cite web|last1=Wilensky|first1=Joe|title=Cornell NYC Tech's first endowed professorship honors Robert Tishman '37|url=http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2012/10/cornell-tech-endowed-professorship-honors-alumnus|publisher=Cornell Chronicle|access-date=26 September 2016|ref=Cornell}} His parents divorced in 1987.{{cite news|title=Anne-Cecilie Engell, Rob Speyer|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/fashion/weddings/16engell.html?_r=5&|work=New York Times| date=15 November 2008 }} In 1992, he graduated magna cum laude from Columbia College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.{{cite web|last1=Staff|title=Rob Speyer named next REBNY chairman|url=http://www.rew-online.com/2012/07/17/rob-speyer-named-next-rebny-chairman/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171025163758/http://rew-online.com/2012/07/17/rob-speyer-named-next-rebny-chairman/|archive-date=2017-10-25|website=Real Estate Weekly|url-status=dead|access-date=2020-10-29}} He is an emeritus member of the Board of Visitors at Columbia College. He worked as a reporter for the New York Daily News before joining Tishman Speyer.{{cite news|last1=Pulley|first1=Brett|title=A Developer For the 90's: Big Projects, Little Flash|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/08/nyregion/a-developer-for-the-90-s-big-projects-little-flash.html|work=The New York Times|date=8 October 1995 |access-date=26 September 2016}}{{cite web|title=Articles by Rob Speyer|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/authors?author=Rob-Speyer|work=Daily News| date=18 May 2007 |access-date=26 September 2016}}
Career
In 2015, Speyer became Tishman Speyer's president and chief executive officer.{{Cite web |date=2015-09-28 |title=Rob Speyer takes the helm of his family's real estate company |url=https://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20150928/REAL_ESTATE/150929867/rob-speyer-takes-the-helm-of-tishman-speyer |access-date=2022-05-04 |website=Crain's New York Business |language=en}}
Speyer was a member of the Real Estate Board of New York's (REBNY) executive committee since 2004, and became the chairman of the committee in 2013.{{cite web |last1=Geiger |first1=Daniel |title=Rob Speyer Named Next REBNY Chairman |url=https://commercialobserver.com/2012/07/rob-speyer-named-next-chairman-of-rebny/ |website=Commercial Observer |date=17 July 2012 }}{{cite web |last1=Cullen |first1=Terence |title=In Rare Move, REBNY Keeps Rob Speyer as Chair for Fifth Year |date=4 August 2016 |url=https://commercialobserver.com/2016/08/in-rare-move-rebny-keeps-rob-speyer-as-chair-for-fifth-year/ |access-date=26 September 2016 |publisher=Commercial Observer}} He was named chairman of the advisory board of the Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City in 2006, reappointed in 2014 by Mayor Bill de Blasio and then reappointed by Mayor Adams.
Speyer sits on the board of trustees of New York-Presbyterian Hospital; the board of visitors of Columbia College (emeritus);{{cite web |title=Rob Speyer named next REBNY chairman |url=http://rew-online.com/2012/07/17/rob-speyer-named-next-rebny-chairman/ |publisher=Real Estate Weekly}} the board of directors of the Real Estate Roundtable;{{cite web |title=The Real Estate Roundtable |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/board.asp?privcapid=5410768 |publisher=Bloomberg |ref=Bloomberg}} the board of trustees of the Citizens Budget Commission; and on the board of directors of Exor.{{cite web |title=Board of Directors |url=https://www.exor.com/home/Corporate-Governance/Board-of-directors.html |access-date=26 September 2016 |publisher=Exor}}